Atletico Madrid’s dream is over. Forced into a draw (1-1) in the first leg at the Metropolitano, the Colchoneros actually bit the dust at the Emirates Stadium (1-0), leaving Arsenal to secure their place for the Champions League final on May 30.
The match changed just before the break when Bukayo Saka took a ball that was poorly pushed back by Jan Oblak. But for many observers, especially in Spain, the other turning point in the match came shortly after the hour mark when Antoine Griezmann was fouled by Riccardo Calafiori in the area.
While he was near the touchline, the French world champion had his foot crushed by the Italian’s sole. But the referee of the match, the German Daniel Siebert, whistled Marc Pubill’s prior foul on Gabriel. A decision that does not pass on the other side of the Pyrenees.
“The action on Griezmann is very obvious”
“He steps on him, it’s a penalty. He touches his supporting foot and makes it fall, said former referee Iturralde González to As. The VAR could have alerted him and allowed him to notice the fault. » “We will talk about it for decades: look at the penalty on Griezmann that was not awarded to Atleti”we can also read in the columns of the Madrid daily. A feeling shared by the Colchoneros.
This is evidenced by Giuliano Simeone’s anger against the referee, the Argentine striker considering that he should also have benefited from a penalty following a foul by Gabriel. “ It went quickly. I felt that when I was going to shoot, he knocked me off balance, so I couldn’t shoot correctly. On certain actions, the referee did not even want to see the VAR. As on the action on Griezmann”, he lashed out.
The tone was more reserved with his father, Dieo Simeone. “The action on Griezmann is very obvious,” he said. But I’m not going to use that as an excuse. »
